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daalsat

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Hi,
I recently found my old Dell XPS 8700 from like 2012 and I tried using it. With a GTX 650, it is of course not good for gaming nowadays. So, does it make sence to upgrade it?
I thought of maybe buying a GTX 1060 or something like that - Could there be a problem with that old motherboard (and the i7 4770 that were in there when I bought it) which prevents it from performing its full "GTX 1060 potential"?
 
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Prebuilt system's are notorious for having BIOS that impede any user end modifications. One notable issue would be to run into an incompatible UEFI BIOS environment when you decide to drop in a GTX1060 into the system. People have complained about the new GPU being populated in their prebuilts while also maintaining that there was more than adequate power for the entire system yet they couldn't get any manner of display.

It came through some hard lessons that the GPU will not work in a system that doesn't have a compatible UEFI BIOS environment. Your second barrier can and will be the PSU's effective output wattage after all these years.

Would you be able to pass on an SKU to your prebuilt DEll XPS 8700?

Edit:
Boom!
 
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daalsat

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I can't do that right now since I don't have it here. But just so you know: I have already made some Changes to the system. I put in a Samsung 850 EVO SSD and I replaced the GTX 650 with a 550 Ti that I still had since the 650 broke some time ago. It is working at the moment - with another GPU, an even older one. So, what you mentioned with the incompatibility of UEFI BIOS, does it apply to the 1060 only or to any other (newer) GPU?
 
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